Jeremy Pauley is fixture in the online oddities trade, known for binding books in human skin and preserving fetal remains. He ...

Illustration by Paul Spella / The Atlantic. Source: Getty. These tendencies come with various emphases and obsessions, but the differences matter less than the common project. The MAGA ideologues who ...

From interactive diagrams to A.I. assistants, virtual tools are beginning to supplant physical dissections in some classrooms Students learn anatomy from an Asclepius AI Table, which merges ...

IN THE beginning, God made man in his image, granting him dominion over every living thing that moves upon the earth. Most people don’t look to the Bible to understand the world and our place in it, ...

Two copies of a poetry book by formerly enslaved poet Phillis Wheatley are bound in human skin and housed in Cincinnati. The books were bound in the 1930s for a collector who reportedly smuggled the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The human skeleton — our internal framework that includes bones and cartilage — evolved over ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Humans have been trying to replace ailing parts of our bodies for thousands of years, turning to prosthetic limbs, ...

A demonic presence. A forbidden love story. A haunted silver mine. An exorcism (or three). A conniving priest. And a mercury poisoning subplot inspired by an episode of "Grey's Anatomy." Isabel Cañas' ...

Former 'Shark Tank' and 'American Ninja Warrior' producer makes career pivot to investigative journalism and podcasting after being duped out of nearly $100,000 by a serial fraudster A dozen years ago ...

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There is no need to pack a big suitcase. No more worrying about tickets or TSA, the nearest gas station, tiny bottles of shampoo, no journal, no favorite t-shirt. You’ll say one last goodbye on this ...